US citizens: call on the US Trade Representative to stop pressuring other countries to import tar sands oil.

An additional reason to reject non-cash payment: it encourages spending without realizing how much you're spending.

This is in addition to avoiding being tracked.

Rouhani is making every possible effort for a reconciliation with the US.

Uri Avnery: for Netanyahu, Rouhani is the most horrible possible president of Iran, because he doesn't do or say anything hostile.

30 years to global heating disaster, says the IPCC.

Mocking the need to cut back on fossil fuels, governments continue to push to extract more.

Here's an example of the stupid short-term thinking.

If every government says "We don't want to be in the lead", none will go anywhere.

The leaders of the Greek fascist party have been arrested and charged with "founding a criminal organization".

These charges may be true, if they planned to provoke the violence that their followers have carried out. However, political views in and of themselves, even fascist views, can't justify labeling a political party a "criminal organization". If they could, the Republican Party would qualify, since its purpose is to help businesses rip off most Americans.